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- The airstrip is only used for emergency and diversionary landings.
- On 9 July 1943 the battalion took part in Operation Slapstick as part a diversionary landing at the Italian port of Taranto.
- On 1 April she was off Okinawa and at 0631 commenced disembarking units of the 2d Marine Division in diversionary landings along the island s southeastern coast.
- She covered the diversionary landings during the assault on 1 April, then took up the radar picket duty which was to bring her a Presidential Unit Citation ( US ).
- Anzio had been a diversionary landing behind enemy lines and, when the Germans staged a massive counterattack, the defenders were in critical danger of being pushed back into the sea.
- "Maryland " was assigned targets on the southern coast of Okinawa to support a diversionary landing, which would distract Japanese forces away from the main landing on the west coast.
- The Allied story for FUSAG was that the army group, based in south-east England, would invade the Pas de Calais region several weeks after a smaller diversionary landing in Normandy.
- The French " Corps exp閐itionnaire d'Orient " had made a diversionary landing at Kum Kale on the Asian shore of the Dardanelles and then moved across the straits to Helles, to hold the right of the Allied line.
- In October 1942, " Exmoor " supported military operations ashore in Operation Lightfoot, part of the prelude to the decisive Second Battle of El Alamein, and on 20 October 1942 escorted a force which made a diversionary landing at Ras-el-Kanais.
- During the initial Allied landing on 25 April, the corps undertook a diversionary landing on the Dardanelles Asiatic coast around Kum Kale, to divert Ottoman forces away from the main landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula, and to disrupt Ottoman artillery that could have fired upon the main landings.
- On 13 April, she shifted to the Hagushi anchorage area; and, on the 16th, sent troops ashore on Ie Shima . on the 19th, she moved around to Okinawa's southern coast for a diversionary landing; then returned to Hagushi to discharge the remainder of her cargo and troops.
- Danish commanders agreed that a major attack would be made north of the town, with General Olaf Rye's 5th Brigade tasked with taking the strongest redoubt, the Treldeskansen; whilst diversionary landings by two fleets each of 22 ships ( each had 1 steamer, 4 gunboats, 5 transports and 12 sailing ships ) would be launched north and south of Fredericia to draw away enemy troops.